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Show The Survey 23 about key subjects in more detail. Hal Cannon pursued matters connected with ranching and buckaroo life, while Carol Edison sought an overview of domestic life and the contribution of women to community life. This work involved some observation and the interviewing of fifteen key subjects. Both fieldworkers developed topical checklists similar to the general survey form; these checklists made their fieldwork more systematic. Their interview subjects were: 1. George Betteridge, rancher and father (82) 2. Therma Betteridge, housewife and mother (77) 3. Wallace Betteridge, rancher and father (79) 4. Oren Kimber, rancher and father (75) 5. Opal Kimber, housewife and mother (66) 6. Raida Kimber, housewife and mother (73) 7. Jack Kimber, rancher and father (55) 8. Lyman Kimber, rancher, school teacher, and father (68) 9. Fern Kimber, housewife and mother (55) 10. Betty Kimber, housewife and mother (32) 11. Harold Oman, rancher and father (82) 12. Kenna Tanner, housewife and mother (58) 13. Merlin Tanner, rancher and father (59) 14. Archie Toyn, farmer and father (75) 15. Rhea Toyn, postmaster, housewife, and mother (70). Altogether, thirteen men and twelve women were recorded. There were thirteen interviews with persons aged sixty-five and above, ten with persons aged forty to sixty-four, and two with those aged forty or below. Although a number of interviews with young people were conducted without tape recording, this gap in age distribution represents the team's failure to match the proposed cross-section of the population. The archive of raw data created by the survey includes approximately 400 pages of written information, 40 hours of sound recordings, 20 architectural and site drawings, black-and-white negatives representing 2,500 images, and 2,259 color slides. The written information includes fieldnotes, logs for sound recordings, and logs for photographic materials. The core of the written documentation is each worker's fieldnotes, a daily journal of events, ideas, and impressions. The fieldnotes illuminate the other materials-not only noting which sites or individuals may have been visited but also offering preliminary interpretations and explanations. The written logs in the archive outline the contents of sound recordings and identify the subject matter of the still photographs. The folklife fieldworkers discovered that the written documentation required significantly more time to complete than was allocated by the project planners. A conservative estimate is that it takes a least one day per week to process fieldwork data; this time should be built into the project plan. |
